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I remember using OS X in the early years of its existence, and it was non-stop spinning beach ball of death. I switched to Windows for a while and then Ubuntu
by edtechdev 10y ago
I remember using OS X in the early years of its existence, and it was non-stop spinning beach ball of death. I switched to Windows for a while and then Ubuntu in 2006 which I still use. Everytime over the past 10 years that I try out a new Mac laptop or even desktop, the spinning beach ball still happens, even just clicking on a text field, despite faster processors, more RAM, SSD, etc. I see it in Windows 7 & 10, too, but basically never in Linux.
- arghIdontwantto 10y agoI have no clue what you are doing, but I have never seen this happen by just clicking a textfield (Mac user since 2005). I have my gripes with Apple, but to say everytime over the last 10 years, just clicking a textfield you get the beachball makes me doubt you. That or you are the unluckiest person I know that always touches a broken mac.
- meric 10y agoI have seen it happen with new macs. Sometimes spotlight indexing is running and it slows down. But it goes away after a day of use for me.
- arghIdontwantto 10y agoFair enough... but still weird I never saw it (and I end up reinstalling my system quite regularly) with the more than 8 mac machines I've own in the last few years (plus a couple from the wife)